Impact of Recycling in the Automobile Industry

IMPACT OF RECYCLING IN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
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INTRODUCTION
Rapid development alongside growth in the human population in the developing nations for the
last two decades has resulted in a legacy of vast spread environmental pollutions. The disposal of
the various industrial solid wastes inclusive of an advance of hazardous pollutants has turned out
to be a single environmental issue mostly for the developing nations.
The automobile is one of the mainly consumed materials globally. The world has undergone
numerous changes in almost all the aspects with having a vehicle becoming a very popular thing
of the present. An increase in the number as well as production of vehicles has turned out to be
the main controller of the global automobile market (Davidson, Binks and Gediga, 2016, p. 125).
The production of automobiles leads to production of water materials which are recycle by
numerous manufacturers as it is in the resolution of the shortage of supply during the process of
manufacturing.
Management of automobile wastes involve reusing and recycling waste materials including
solvents, batteries, metal, glass as well as plastics. Recycling of such materials aids in address of
the concerns of the environment and enabling them to address challenge of depletion of
resources (Gu et al., 2017, p.268). At the moment, about 75% of the cumulative vehicle weight
undergoes recycling. The end-of-life of vehicles attempts to push the process of recycling even
farther through fixing the recyclability percentage at 85% while recovery at 95%. The left 25%
get to the landfill and are termed as Auto Shredder Residue. Auto Shredder Residue is mainly
made up of fluff and foams, rubbers, metals as well as plastics in various compositions an at the
moment there does not exist a cost effective technology for recycling for foam and plastics.

Most of the modern automotive experts are pushing for numerous procedures to attain better
performance in the recycling of end life of vehicles that is of utmost significance in the recovery
of valuable resources as well as materials from end of life of vehicles (Hao et al., 2017).
LITERATURE REVIEW
Composition of Vehicles
The ordinary vehicle is made up of numerous materials including rubber tyres, steel body frame,
lead batteries, copper wires, glass windows alongside traces of metals I including magnesium,
cobalt, zinc, tin as well as platinum. There has been a significant change in the composition of
vehicles in the recent years as has been witnessed with the significant decline in the
concentration of ferrous metals as a result of adoption of lighter as well as more fuel efficient
materials for the manufacture including aluminium and engineered plastic (Karurkar,
Unnikrishnan and Panda, 2018, p.458).
The energy required in generation of metals tends to be quite high in comparison to the one used
in the manufacture of plastics. There has been a significant rise in the used in production of
vehicles due to their feature of being resistant to corrosion besides being lightweight and
cheaper. The most fundamental aspect of using plastics in the production of vehicles is its cost
efficiency on energy as well as fuel sources (Luthra, Garg and Haleem, 2016, p.591). Metals
including aluminium, steel and metal alloys were the major raw materials for vehicle production
in the past until they were was need to overcome the production of carbon dioxide through the
reduction of the weight of the vehicles with the aim of lowering the fuel consumption amount
that some of the steel were eliminated and substituted using lightweight aluminium.